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Copyright problem: Cooby Creek Tracking Station

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Cooby Creek Tracking Station, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/other_stations/cooby_creek/cooby_tech.html, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

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If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at this temporary page. Leave a note at Talk:Cooby Creek Tracking Station saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Deor (talk) 12:53, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Question about Cooby Creek article

Hi, Andy58. We currently have a problem with the Cooby Creek Tracking Station article because is duplicates the copyrighted text of this article. Are you the original author of the internet article? If so, we will need the text released for Wikipedia use through the procedure at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. Let me know if you have questions. — CactusWriter | ^needles 17:57, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

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